Text by Stuart McKenzie
72 pages
47 illustrations in color
WHILE WE MAY HAVE LOST
a religious outlook, there are certain
modalities of nature that continue to move us on a symbolic
and/or unconscious level. No doubt this is part of the power
of Brian Sweeney's photographs in Paradise Road. These photos
envision the world around us in its grandeur and banality as a sacred
milieu to the very extent that it is not. The word "paradise" tells us
to look up, but then again the word "road" advises that we keep
our feet on the ground. Sweeney's keenly discriminated images of sky,
clouds, horizons, mountains, water, and trees strike us with
an atavistic sense of the sacred power of nature.